About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

November 4......

November 4 is the 308th (309th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 57 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Intellectuals "There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side." — Vaclav Havel

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Public Enemy: Public Schools "Government-owned schools have a complete monopoly, plain and simple, and all monopolies fear competition. I can 100 percent guarantee an inferior product of any human endeavor if producers are shielded from competition, if producers are not forced to innovate and improve. Mr. Speaker, just look at the Communist legacy in every single case, especially education. The bureaucrats who just love their government-owned schools and want to protect their monopoly will do so at just about any cost, regardless of whether kids have to receive an inferior education and blighted futures. Mr. Speaker, it is wrong and I have lost patience with those who refuse to do best for the kids. School choice is the answer." — Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO). Congressional Record, H7124, 9-10-97.—Part 2 of 2 {Due to the length of some of these nutball quotes, I have decided to split the longer ones into parts. I could have abridged them but I think that would have lessened the impact of showing just how crazy these guys are. Please refer to previous and/or subsequent posts for complete quote.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "He was a man of great statue." — Thomas Menino, former mayor of Boston

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

● 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.

● 1924 - Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America.

● 1927 - Friends' Service Committee established, Britain.

● 1928 - Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game.

● 1931 - Luigi Galleani, Italian anarchist, dies of a heart attack, at the age of 70.

● 1933 - Three thousand farmers demonstrate in Neilsville, Wisconsin. The action frees jailed leaders of a milk strike. During the Depression, desperate Wisconsin farmers called the strike in an attempt to raise ruinously low milk prices set by large dairy plants. Their preferred tactic was halting milk production. Led by the Wisconsin Milk Pool, they gathered on roads leading to Wisconsin cities, dumping tons of fresh milk. They also stopped trains loaded with milk bound for Chicago. To break the strike, Governor Albert Schmedeman called out the National Guard.

● 1939 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.

● 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.

● 1945 - UNESCO is founded.

● 1946 - Birth of radical queer photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

● 1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.

● 1952 - Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America.

● 1956 - Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest. Two hundred thousand Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist uprising in this second invasion of Hungary. New pro-Russian government installed. Civilians set up barricades along all the major roads leading to Budapest. Soldiers and Hungarian National Guard troops participate in the resistance. Only Communist Party functionaries and security police fought along with the Russians in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." The United States, which had previously pledged to help and protect the anti-Stalinists, stood by and tut- tutted. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.

● 1958 - B-47 carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Abilene, Texas.

● 1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.

● 1980 - Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America. {This is after making a secret deal that keeps the above hostages captive until he is sworn in as president. Only one of many illegal acts he will commit in the course of becoming and being president.}

● 1984 - First free elections in Nicaraguan history. Sandinistas defeat six other parties.

● 1986 - Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment. {This is a false accusation as the legislature had purposely crafted the capital punishment statutes so they had to be declared unconstitutional. The real motive is the strict enforcement of pro-consumer protection from business statutes of the state Supreme Court. This allowed appointment of pro-business Justices.}

● 1988 - At O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Pres. Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing for U.S. participation in an anti-genocide treaty signed by Pres. Truman in 1948. At that very moment, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, at the time a CIA asset, ally of the U.S., and recipient of massive U.S. arms sales in his war against Iran, was gassing the Kurds, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Donald Rumsfeld was preparing to go to Baghdad to conclude another arms sale (which he would do, without mentioning the gassing).

● 1989 - Five hundred thousand demonstrate in East Berlin.

● 1989 - The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.

● 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.

● 1993 - Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

● 1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Birrstan● St. Charles Borromeo● St. Clarus● St. Emeric● St. Joannicus● St. Modesta● Sts. Nicander and Hermas● Sts. Philologus and Patrobas● St. Pierius● St. Vitalis

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 19 (Civil Date: November 4)● Righteous John, Wonderworker of Kronstadt.● Prophet Joel.● Martyr Varus, and with him Six Monk martyrs.● Blessed Cleopatra and her son John, in Egypt.● St. John, abbot of Rila in Bulgaria.● Hieromartyr Sadoc (Sadoth), Bishop of Persia, and 128 Martyrs with him.● St. Leontius the Philosopher of St. Sabbas' Monastery.● Blessed Prochorus of Pechenga.● New Martyr Priest Alexis Stavrosky (1918).

● Greek Calendar:● Hieromartyr Felix and Deacon Eusebius.● Commemoration of the Glorification of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia (1982).

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar

● Feast of Our Lady of Kazan in Russian Orthodox Church

● Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Plebeii

● Russia - Day of People's Unity (or National Unity Day), coincides with the feast of the Theotokos of Kazan.

● Panama's Flag Day

● Italy - celebration of victory in World War I, the date of the Armed Forces

● Tonga's National Day, from 2006.

THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.